Looking for people to trade reviews with.

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu Jul 12 17:13:38 UTC 2007


David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 16:52 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Well, this is what the upstream / manufacturer provided SDK uses, and I would 
>> rather not deviate from that. Also I haven't tested cross compiling the kernel 
>> with the toolchain yet. 
> 
> OTOH 'make headers_install' is what the upstream kernel does, and I
> would rather we didn't deviate from that :)
> 

Well, did it support that with 2.6.9 too, because thats what the gp2x firmware 
has. Don't get me wrong I'm fine with switching if:
-the chance for regressions is close to 0
-we solve the 40 mb srpm for a few headers issue

>> Can I just take a kernel run "make menuconfig" and then 
>> "make headers_install" ? Do you know what config I should use for the gp2x 
>> handheld? (arm based handheld console) 
> 
> You can do 'make ARCH=arm headers_install'. You don't need to do any
> configuration.
> 
> (Please stop for a moment and then think about what the world would be
> like if the kernel's configuration made a difference to the
> kernel<->user ABI -- other than just meaning that some features are
> unavailable and return -ENOSYS etc. :)
> 

Good point!

Regards,

Hans




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